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Title: Song Bird
He could see the struggle for rationality and calmness in her eyes. Her tears hung like crystal droplets on her thick lashes. She stared unwavering up at him.
He repeated the words carefully.
"I'm getting married."
Her face stretched into anguish and pain, and for the fleeting moment he felt an overwhelming sense of foreboding and loss.
"Don't."
His deadly warning fell onto deaf ears.
She shook her head in subtle denial, as she questioned him.
"Then...what were we?"
"You have your dreams and I have mine."
Even to his own ears, his words stung. He felt a surge of hot tears threatening to gather behind his lids. He swallowed tightly before beginning his well-rehearsed persuasion.
It was a first. He felt like a trembling lamb approaching his impending doom at the butcher block.
Her eyes finally focused on him, the confusion and betrayal remained, but her expression has faltered into a disguised passivity.
"Go abroad and study your passion. Come back in two years, and it will be all over. We can be together then."
His soft promises did not yield any response from her. She remained stoic, her eyes on the ground. Even with his keen perceptive sense, he was unable to read her.
His grip on her shoulder tighten. He waited with a nervousness he thought his father had long beaten out of him. Licking his lips briefly, he felt the dryness of his lips.
She stepped away from him, and in that instant he could already feel her slipping out of his fingers. She looked up at him, betrayal and angered were replaced by a quiet resolve. It was a rare moment, one that he would have admired had the situation been any less ominous.
He knew the words she was going to say before they were heard. She could never really lie with her eyes.
"Let's break up."
"No."
"Did you expect me to wait for you?"
"I expect to you to understand. It's a contract, nothing more."
"Does marriage means nothing to you?"
"I won't betray you, all I need are her shares to gain full control, you know this."
"Does she even know what she is agreeing into?"
"Yes. We've spoken a couple of times. I have something she wants also."
Perhaps it was that very moment that decided everything for her. He saw the incredulous expression, before it became overcast with disappointment.
"-Eun-Sang I-"
She chuckled, her laughter mocked him. Her eyes pained and spoke volumes of the finality of her stance.
And he knew. He knew her too well. She was going to leave him, no matter what he says.
"I didn't accept the scholarship to study abroad."
"…what?"
It was a mixtures of disbelief and remorse. Suddenly, the world seems to be crashing down on him, the unexpected news felt more burdensome and heavy than his demanding father.
"My dream changed…but so have you."
He started to tremble, it was a cold and scary feeling. She continued softly.
"I thought we wanted the same thing, but I guess its my own fault for not knowing my place."
Her words were like a silent bomb. It left him breathless and guilty.
"…why?"
"Because I didn't need to escape from reality anymore. Because you've stood by me with all my ups and downs. You've showed me courage, where I would have given up. For once,…just once, I wanted to be brave for you. Even if it was just standing by you during the hard times. I wanted to fight with you, and stand at an equal ground with you...You've said that education, wealth and status meant nothing to you, but even for you, you can't deny their value, can you?"
He was wordless. It was as if she slapped him. She repeated his words back to him; the very words he had challenged her with after her separation with Tan.
She slipped off the ring that cemented their promise to each other and placed them on the flat surface of the table. It was a simple gold ring, but a closer inspection of the inner ring showed the elegant mastery and detailed engraving of a song bird and their names linked to one another.
"You know and I know that there are a billion reasons why we can't be together."
She let's out a soft sigh of sadness before giving him the final blow.
"Now I will give you one more reason…and that is I've changed, we've changed. We're too different and we cannot go back even if we want to...I no longer want to see you anymore...Good bye, Young-do."
He felt her moved past him. Her silent figure slowly walking farther and farther out of his reach. He couldn't even moved to chase after her; his foot was rooted to the ground. It was only after he knew that she was gone, her foot steps no longer echoing along the stairs did he crumbled onto the floor. An endless hollowness gnawed at his chest; it threatened to swallow him whole.
She probably didn't realize it.
She probably didn't know.
But when she left, she had taken his heart with her.
Leaving him forever alone and hollowed.
Perhaps the song bird will one day pray,
pray for him as he will say,
please, without delay
to bring her back to him someday.
To be continue?
Maybe see you in the next chapter~~; - ]
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